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Quite some interesting information and news from the Kurdish regions – Bakur (Turkey), Başȗr (Iraq), Rojava (Syria) and Rojhilat (Iran) – is rarely, if ever, reported by the mainstream media.
The Kurdish Institute tries to fill this gap by reporting on a regular basis through its own news page recent facts and events, both from the Kurdish regions and from the rest of the world.
Two poems and an album on the struggle in Kurdistan : Sherko Bekas
The Kurdish poets are poets of a people whose language and culture has suffered under constant persecution.
New York times: Article about Kurds in Turkey!
A BALEFUL love song wafted from the Vizyon Muzik Market. Not so long ago playing Kurdish music over a loudspeaker into the streets here might have provoked the Turkish police. Just speaking the names of certain Kurdish singers at one time could have landed a Kurd in prison.
Jailed Azerbaijani journalist pardoned
The release of prominent newspaper editor Eynulla Fatullayev is a step in the right direction for freedom of expression in Azerbaijan, Amnesty International said today.
Declaration of the 11th Congress of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)
The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) presents the conclusions following the successful completion of its annual Congress on 28th-29th May 2011. Common agreement was reached to distribute the conclusions in Kurdistan, the Middle East and rest of the world and these are listed as:
My experience, Shaila Moreno Cerezo
If we ask any person on the street where the Kurdistan is, most people will not be able to answer and many probably will not even know that it is a nation, that may not be reflected on any map, but is stuck in the hearts of millions of people, including mine.
THE KURDISH ISSUE IN TURKEY: THE RIGHT TO EXIST IS NOT ENOUGH…
By Nurcan Baysal, Dilan Bozgan and Nina Henkens,
Submitted to the Prague Security Institute on the occasion of the conference 'Where is Turkey heading?', May 4 2011
PJAK : Solidarity with the martyrs of 9th May
The Iranian theocratic regime executed four Kurdish outstanding campaigners Ferzad Kemangir, Ali Heyderyan, Shirin Alemhoii, and Ferhad Wekili along with a Persian campaigner Mehdi Islamyan last year on 9th May.
26/05/2011, CONFERENCE AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : DERSIM 1937 – 1938
ON THE 74TH ANNIVERSARY OF TURKEY’S DERSIM MASSACRE, THIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE EXAMINES THE EVENT’S IMPORTANCE AND SEEKS JUSTICE FOR THE VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES
Iran Pressures Iraq to Crack Down on Kurds, Ken Timmerman – Newsmax
The Iraqi government is coming under pressure from Tehran to crack down on Iranian Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq, and has recently moved tanks and artillery close to guerilla camps in the mountains near the Iranian border, Kurdish sources told Newsmax.
